Seventh Son (film)

Movie
German title	Seventh Son
Original title	Seventh Son
Country of production	United States , ; Great Britain , ; Russia
original language	English
Publishing year	2014
length	102 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 ; JMK 12
Rod
Director	Sergei Bodrov
script	Charles Leavitt , ; Steven Knight , ; Matt Greenberg
production	Basil Iwanyk , ; Thomas Tull , ; Lionel Wigram
music	Marco Beltrami
camera	Newton Thomas Sigel
cut	Paul Rubell , ; Jim Page
occupation
	Ben Barnes : Tom Ward; Jeff Bridges : John Gregory; Julianne Moore : Mother Malkin; Alicia Vikander : Alice Deane; Kit Harington : Billy Bradley; Djimon Hounsou : Radu; Jason Scott Lee : Urag; Antje Traue : Bony Lizzie; Olivia Williams : Mother Ward;
synchronization

Seventh Son (English for seventh son ) is the film adaptation of the fantasy children's book Spook - The Student of the Ghost Hunter by Joseph Delaney , the first book in the Spook cycle . The protagonist is 14-year-old Tom Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son, whose adventures are told as a student of a ghost hunter. The cinema release in Germany was on March 5, 2015.

action

The ghost hunter John Gregory, the last of 1000, arrested the chief witch mother Malkin and thus prevented the defeat of the people against the ghosts. After ten years she managed to escape and she built up her power again. John Gregory is still in the way. He only has time until the next blood moon to train his student Tom to fight the darkest black magic - a lesson that otherwise takes years. This first shows his human side, but then fights bravely against the dangers. After mixed feelings towards Alice, a half-witch, he learns from his own mother, killed by his mother Malkin, that he is also a half-blood. His mother gave him an amulet that increased Malkin's power and protects against witchcraft. Alice steals this amulet under the influence of Malkin. In the subsequent pursuit, Tom falls into a ravine and is initially believed to be dead. When Gregory and his companions finally attack Malkin, Malkin can initially take control of the ghost hunter with the amulet. When Alice hears of Tom's death, she takes the amulet off Malkin. She joins the ghost hunter's team and Malkin can be defeated. Tom takes on the role of ghost hunter while Gregory sets off with an unknown destination.

background

Production started on March 19, 2012 in Vancouver .

Sam Claflin was originally intended for the role of Tom Ward, but after a report by Variety magazine in June 2011, he dropped out and was replaced by Ben Barnes .

In February 2013, producing studio Legendary Pictures agreed to provide the bankrupt visual effects Rhythm and Hues Studios with $ 5 million to complete their work on the film.

The theatrical release in Germany was originally scheduled for October 24, 2013, but was then on 20 July 2013 the Comic-Con by Warner Brothers announced for January 20, 2014. On August 15, 2013, Legendary Pictures announced that the collaboration with Warner had ended and distribution would now be taken over by Universal Pictures . The film opened in France on December 17, 2014. The US release was postponed to February 6, 2015, in Germany the film was released on March 5, 2015.

The film was produced in 3D and IMAX 3D .

reception

"" Seventh Son "is a listless youth fantasy film from the test tube, which only impresses with its opulent CGI effects."

Björn Helbig criticizes the forgetfulness of history and a racist tenor of the film on kino-zeit.de: “In general, it is very questionable how unreflected and forgotten about history is dealt with here with the subject of“ witches ”. Witches: evil, pyre, that's it! Even the existence of the half-bloods, who are friendly towards people, does not change the basic racist tenor of the film. "

Miriam Eck criticizes the obvious misogyny and racism in flip books: “Now you could simply dismiss the film as entertaining trash. Unfortunately, however, this film is so obviously misogynistic and racist that it leaves you speechless. All “good” heroes are white and male. All evil mythical creatures are black people, Asians or Arabs. One has the feeling that every racist cliché was also taken up. The best example: a black woman who was visually stereotypically identified as African can transform herself into a leopard. That wouldn't even be so bad if her figure wasn't reduced to just that. Your intentions or thoughts? - Not of interest. "

synchronization

The German synchronization was created by Interopa Film based on a dialog book by Klaus Bickert and directed by Björn Schalla .

role	Actress	Voice actor
Tom Ward	Ben Barnes	Ozan Unal
John Gregory	Jeff Bridges	Joachim Tennstedt
Mother Malkin	Julianne Moore	Petra Barthel
Alice Deane	Alicia Vikander	Yvonne Greitzke
Billy Bradley	Kit Harington	Tobias Nath
Radu	Djimon Hounsou	Daniel Zillmann
Urag	Jason Scott Lee
Bony Lizzie	Antje Traue	Antje Traue
Mother ward	Olivia Williams	Silvia Missbach